catalogue

SHITS, THE

YOU'RE A MESS (RED VINYL LP) (ROCKET RECORDINGS)

SHITS, THE - YOU'RE A MESS (RED VINYL LP) 158595
format:
1 LPD
release:
19.05.2023
label:
ROCKET RECORDINGS
genre:
Hardcore/Punk
item ID:
158595
barcode:
5056321672261
Let's face facts here; we're all a mess. Life in the 2020s thus far has been a litany of crushing indignities at best.

Living standards plummet, lies carry the same currency as truth, and rock music - that racket that once served as countercultural force and revolutionary fire - has been neutered and subsumed into nullity.

That's unless you're listening to The Shits. 'You're A Mess' - the second album from Leeds' filthiest sons - is a staggering assault of invective fit to reignite your ire, and a sound that constitutes a real and present threat to life and limb.

Contained within these eight feral exorcisms is a merciless assault of Stoogian/stygian riffage, gloriously purgatorial abjection and intimidating aggro that takes a garage-rock blueprint and grinds its face in the dirt.If these grimy dirges and salvos of horror have a precedent, it's in the menacing audial lineage that connects Fun House through the AmRep label, Brainbombs and Drunk In Hell - the process where relentless negativity is alchemically transformed into profane primal salvation.

Yet The Shits worship no heroes, obeying a thanatotic urge that sees no separation between death and glory.

Listen to this album and you will believe once again in catharsis by way of heavy amplification.

Psych-rock is dead, and The Shits are the executioners. Assume the position.
 
  • Tracklisting
  • 1.1. IN MY HOTEL ROOM
  • 1.2. WAITING
  • 1.3. YOU'RE A MESS
  • 1.4. THE VENUS (AFTER HOURS)
  • 1.5. BLUDGEONED TO DEATH
  • 1.6. ALONE II
  • 1.7. UGLY, WORTHLESS
  • 1.8. I REGRET NOTHING (PARTS 1 & 2)